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Unsurprisingly Blizzard is still overwhelmed by account hacking.

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While doing a 'view source' on a Blizzard forum page I came across this amusing gem. This particular post was by Bornakk, but this script is actually at the end of every single post made (e.g. the next one has race = "Undead" realm = "Boulderfist" yon_hero = "Shadowavatar")

<script>
if(this['arrpee']){ 
gender = -1;
if(gender==1){ third = "she"; possess = "her"; dobject="her"; }
else{ third = "he"; possess = "his"; dobject="him"; }
race = "blue poster"
realm = "Azeroth"
yon_hero = "Bornakk"
//lulz(0); //BBQs 
if(13395581 == rpf) lulz(0);
else arrpee(0);
}
</script>

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Those who have been around WoW for a while may remember one of the most entertaining threads on the WoW forums where people were exploring the limits of their chat censorship system. At the time (and perhaps still) they prevented topics via substring-matching. Which meant that, since "rape" was blocked, you couldn't talk about the "Drape of the Faceless General" without talking about the "D*#$& of the Faceless General."

This lead to a very amusing thread where people found a variety of words that were innocuous but blocked due to substring matches.

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Some more great strats to announce from the community:

First off, one of the most amusing Anub videos I've seen from Brakthir of Phantom Elite. It's a good Anub kill video in general, but the 8 minute mark is definitely worth watching through to the end, as it may not be clean but it's effective! Anub First Kill - Full Wipe

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In a post today Ghostcrawler said:

I always said that when my posting was doing more harm than good that maybe it was time to stop. I think I'll at least chill it out a little. I will continue to read the forums though. If you want to make sure the WoW developer see your feedback, this is still a good place to post.

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Yay, I got a response back from WoWProgress today.

The background is that he added our kill on 8/3. The past week since then has been non-stop trolling by people who don't understand basic math, claiming that we "cheated" by convincing WoWProgress to put our kill on 8/3 thereby getting a higher score than other guilds.

We did in fact get our kill on 8/3, but it was right around midnight Atlantic Standard Time, which is when the armory flips over dates. So it was 8/3 in that it was pre-3.2, but 8/4 as far as armory dates go.

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This is a digression from my normal topics, but my husband sent me this awesome article and I know there's a bunch of women who follow this site simply because I'm a woman in a high-end raid guild (and, incidentally, I'm a computer programmer.)

Standing Out in the Crowd is about open-source programming -- but it's also about starting in on programming even if you never have.

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